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Bamako

Bamako is the capital of and straddles the Niger River. With a population of around 2.5 million in 2020, it's the largest city in Mali and one of the largest in West Africa.
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  • Type: City with 1,810,000 residents
  • Description: capital of Mali
  • Also known as: “Bammaco” and “Bammako”
Photo: gigawebs, CC BY 2.0.

Places of Interest

Highlights include Embassy of France, Bamako and Sacred Heart Cathedral.

Government office
The Embassy of France in Bamako is the diplomatic mission of to . It is in Patrice Lumumba Square in Bamako, the capital of Mali. In 2022, Joël Meyer, the French ambassador to Mali, was expelled by Mali for diplomatic reasons.

Church
Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY 2.0.
The is located in Bamako, the capital of , and serves as the cathedral of the Archdiocese of Bamako.

Government office
The has one of the largest diplomatic networks, reflecting its links in the world and particularly in neighbouring regions: , the , , , , and the rest of the .

Bamako

Latitude
12.6493° or 12° 38′ 58″ north
Longitude
-8.0003° or 8° 0′ 1″ west
Population
1,810,000
Elevation
374 metres (1,227 feet)
IATA airport code
BKO
United Nations Location Code
ML BKO
Open location code
7C4HJXXX+PV
Open­Street­Map ID
node 27564954
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­city
Geo­Names ID
2460596
Wiki­data ID
Q3703
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Satellite Map

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In Other Languages

From Afrikaans to Zulu—“Bamako” goes by many names.
  • Afrikaans: “Bamako”
  • Albanian: “Bamako”
  • Amharic: “ባማኮ”
  • Arabic: “باماكو”
  • Arabic: “بامكو”
  • Aragonese: “Bamako”
  • Armenian: “Բամակո”
  • Asturian: “Bamaku”
  • Azerbaijani: “Bamako”
  • Balinese: “Bamako”
  • Bambara: “Bamakɔ”
  • Bambara: “Bàmakɔ”
  • Bashkir: “Бамако”
  • Basque: “Bamako”
  • Belarusian: “Бамако”
  • Bengali: “বামাকো”
  • Bosnian: “Bamako”
  • Breton: “Bamako”
  • Bulgarian: “Бамако”
  • Catalan: “Bamako”
  • Cebuano: “Bamako Region”
  • Central Kurdish: “باماکۆ”
  • Chechen: “Бамако”
  • Chinese: “Bamako”
  • Chinese: “巴馬科”
  • Chinese: “巴马科”
  • Chuvash: “Бамако”
  • Croatian: “Bamako”
  • Czech: “Bamako”
  • Danish: “Bamako”
  • Dimli (individual language): “Bamako”
  • Dutch: “Bamako”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “باماكو”
  • Esperanto: “Bamako”
  • Estonian: “Bamako”
  • Extremaduran: “Bamako”
  • Fiji Hindi: “Bamako”
  • Finnish: “Bamako”
  • French: “Bamako”
  • Fulah: “Bamako”
  • Galician: “Bamaco”
  • Georgian: “ბამაკო”
  • German: “Bamako”
  • Greek: “Μπαμακό”
  • Greek: “Μπαμάκο”
  • Guarani: “Vámako”
  • Gujarati: “બામાકો”
  • Haitian: “Bamako”
  • Hakka Chinese: “Bamako”
  • Hausa: “Bamako”
  • Hebrew: “במקו”
  • Hindi: “बमाको”
  • Hungarian: “Bamako”
  • Icelandic: “Bamakó”
  • Ido: “Bamako”
  • Iloko: “Bamako”
  • Inari Sami: “Bamako”
  • Indonesian: “Bamako”
  • Interlingua: “Bamako”
  • Interlingue: “Bamako”
  • Irish: “Bamako”
  • Italian: “Bamako”
  • Japanese: “バマコ”
  • Javanese: “Bamako”
  • Kabiyè: “Pamakoo”
  • Kabyle: “Bamaku”
  • Kannada: “ಬಮಾಕೋ”
  • Kazakh: “Бамако”
  • Kinyarwanda: “Bamako”
  • Kirghiz: “Бaмако шаары”
  • Kirghiz: “Бамако”
  • Komering: “Bamako”
  • Kongo: “Bamako”
  • Korean: “바마코”
  • Kotava: “Bamako”
  • Kurdish: “Bamako”
  • Latin: “Bamako”
  • Latvian: “Bamako”
  • Ligurian: “Bamako”
  • Lingua Franca Nova: “Bamako”
  • Lithuanian: “Bamakas”
  • Livvi: “Bamako”
  • Lombard: “Bamako”
  • Low German: “Bamako”
  • Luxembourgish: “Bamako”
  • Macedonian: “Бамако”
  • Malagasy: “Bamako”
  • Malay: “Bamako”
  • Malayalam: “ബാമാകോ”
  • Maltese: “Bamako”
  • Maori: “Pamako”
  • Marathi: “बमाको”
  • Mazanderani: “باماکو”
  • Min Dong Chinese: “Bamako”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Bamako”
  • Minangkabau: “Bamako”
  • Mingrelian: “ბამაკო”
  • Moksha: “Бамака”
  • Moksha: “Бамако”
  • Mongolian: “Бамако”
  • Moroccan Arabic: “باماكو”
  • N'Ko: “ߓߊ߲߬ߓߊ߬ ߞߐ”
  • N'Ko: “ߓߡߊ߬ߞߐ߫”
  • Navajo: “Táłkááʼtsʼin Bitooʼ”
  • Neapolitan: “Bamako”
  • Northern Frisian: “Bamako”
  • Northern Sami: “Bamako”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Bamako”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Bamako”
  • Norwegian: “Bamako”
  • Novial: “Bamako”
  • Nyanja: “Bamako”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Bamako”
  • Official Aramaic (700-300 BCE): “ܒܡܩܘ”
  • Ossetian: “Бамако”
  • Panjabi: “ਬਮਾਕੋ”
  • Papiamento: “Bamako”
  • Persian: “باماکو”
  • Piemontese: “Bamako”
  • Pitcairn-Norfolk: “Bamaakoe”
  • Polish: “Bamako”
  • Portuguese: “Bamaco”
  • Portuguese: “Bamako”
  • Pushto: “باماکو”
  • Romanian: “Bamako”
  • Russian: “Бамако”
  • Russian: “Баммако”
  • Rusyn: “Бамако”
  • Santali: “ᱵᱟᱢᱟᱠᱳ”
  • Sardinian: “Bamako”
  • Scots: “Bamako”
  • Scottish Gaelic: “Bamako”
  • Serbian: “Бамако”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Bamako”
  • Shona: “Bamako”
  • Sicilian: “Bamako”
  • Silesian: “Bamako”
  • Sindhi: “بماڪو”
  • Sinhala: “බමාකෝ දිස්ත්‍රික්කය”
  • Sinhala: “බමාකෝ”
  • Skolt Sami: “Bamako”
  • Slovak: “Bamako”
  • Slovenian: “Bamako”
  • Somali: “Bamako”
  • South Azerbaijani: “باماکو”
  • Spanish: “Bamako”
  • Swahili: “Bamako”
  • Swati: “Bamako”
  • Swedish: “Bamako”
  • Tagalog: “Bamako”
  • Tajik: “Бамако”
  • Tamil: “பமாக்கோ”
  • Tamil: “பம்கோ”
  • Telugu: “బమాకో”
  • Telugu: “బామకో”
  • Thai: “บามาโก”
  • Tibetan: “བ་མ་ཀོ།”
  • Turkish: “Bamako”
  • Turkmen: “Bamako”
  • Tyap: “Bamako”
  • Udmurt: “Бамако”
  • Ukrainian: “Бамако”
  • Upper Sorbian: “Bamako”
  • Urdu: “بماکو”
  • Uzbek: “Bamako”
  • Venetian: “Bamako”
  • Veps: “Bamako”
  • Vietnamese: “Bamako”
  • Volapük: “Bamako”
  • Võro: “Bamako”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Bamako”
  • Welsh: “Bamako”
  • Western Frisian: “Bamako”
  • Western Mari: “Бамако”
  • Western Panjabi: “بماکو”
  • Wu Chinese: “巴马科”
  • Yiddish: “באמאקא”
  • Yiddish: “באַמאַקא”
  • Yoruba: “Bamako”
  • Yue Chinese: “巴馬科”
  • Zeeuws: “Bamako”
  • Zulu: “i-Bamako”
  • “Bamako”

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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikivoyage page “Bamako”. Photo: Rgaudin, Public domain.